Since the recent update of CUPS, I've had problems with it crashing/hanging every day on my SL44 machines. One common symptom is that "lpq" will hang. Restarting CUPS fixes the problem. The versions of the CUPS packages installed on an affected machine are shown below:
sirtommy 14:17% cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux SL release 4.4 (Beryllium) sirtommy 14:16% yum list '*cups*' Loading "kernel-module" plugin Loading "versionfix" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Beginning versionfix Ending versionfix Installed Packages cups.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el installed cups-libs.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el installed hal-cups-utils.i386 0.5.2-8 installed libgnomecups.i386 0.1.12-5 installed Available Packages bluez-utils-cups.i386 2.10-2.4 sl-errata cups-devel.i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.27.el sl-errata gimp-print-cups.i386 4.2.7-2 sl-base libgnomecups-devel.i386 0.1.12-5 sl-base My SL50 64-bit machines do not appear to be affected by this problem. Eva.
